THE MEAT POOL.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 February 1922, Page 7

THE MEAT POOL.

PROJECT RIDICULED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Sydney, Feb. 23. Sir Philip Proctor, formerly Director of Meat Supplies in the Ministry of Food in Britain, has been appointed Australasian representative of Vesteys Limited. Entertained at the Millions Club, he said he strongly resented Government interference with private traders. He thought the Commonwealth should leave the development of . the Northern Territory to private pioneers. While the British Government meat pool served its purpose during the war, he hoped there would never be another, as it encouraged people to look for the paternal action of the Government to remedy matters instead of doing it for themselves. For instance the New Zealand Government recently passed legislation placing the whole of the export trade of the Dominion under one department. It was farcical. ■ If they thought some official of the New Zealand Government could regulate the. British meat markets for the benefit of New Zealand producers such a hope was utterly illusive, and showed how far the present meat producers had retrogressed from the indomitable spirit of the Dominion pioneers.